Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is because it's a mechanism of power and control. You can control priests who are celibate.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
I went to a festival pretending to work as a journalist to get free tickets and interview people I really admired. I remember one of these people was Guillermo del Toro.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.
